{"id":2031102,"date":"2023-09-13T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-facing-pushback-from-city-council-members-over-migrant-tent-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T00:17:19","slug":"chicago-mayor-facing-pushback-from-city-council-members-over-migrant-tent-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-facing-pushback-from-city-council-members-over-migrant-tent-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor faces opposition from City Council members over migrant tent proposal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-facing-pushback-from-city-council-members-over-migrant-tent-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031102&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Chicago Mayor Faces Pushback Over\u200d Plan to House \u200cMigrants in Tents<\/h2>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing pushback from members of the city council over his plan to house migrants \u2063in tents across the city.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-portland-mayor-done-with-anarchist-mob-begs-public-to-help-unmask-rioters\/\" title=\"Democrat Portland Mayor \u2018Done\u2019 With \u2018Anarchist Mob,\u2019 Begs Public To Help \u2018Unmask\u2019 Rioters\">mayor asked<\/a> all 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-cheers-as-homeless-group-seizes-hotel-near-tacoma-city-leaders-negotiating-with-group-as-police-refuse-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Far Left Cheers As Homeless Group Seizes Hotel Near Tacoma; City Leaders Negotiating With Group As Police Refuse To Intervene\">city council members<\/a> to find two acres in their wards for a large tent that could house\u2063 200 migrants. The tents\u200d would be rigged with heat and cooling units, cots, a\u200c mess hall, and water hookups.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve looked in\u2062 my ward. I just don\u2019t have any available space. I\u2064 have one \u2064of the most dense wards in the city,\u201d said Alderman\u200b Brian Hopkins, whose ward includes\u2063 parts of downtown, ABC7 reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another council member, Alderman David Moore, said several vacant lots \u200don the South Side should be set up\u200b for Chicago residents, not new\u2064 migrants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m\u200c a believer in help your people first,\u2062 help yourselves first, help your community first. And then,\u200d reach out and help others,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>However, many migrants\u200d have been sheltering at police stations, and Hopkins \u200csaid a tent could be an \u2063improvement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get those human\u200c beings out of those inhumane conditions right now,\u200c and clearly, a tent with some type of secure facility is a slight improvement over what they\u2063 are currently \u2062living in,\u201d Hopkins said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Migrants \u2063are also sleeping at O\u2019Hare Airport.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think what should \u200bbe made clear is because of the scale we are looking at,\u2063 everyone needs to share in\u200b the responsibility,\u201d said Alderman \u2063Andre Vasquez, who chairs Chicago\u2019s Immigrant \u2063and Refugee Rights Committee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vasquez \u2063suggested that\u2064 later, the tents could be used for Chicago\u2019s homeless.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you can make that case, then you can say this\u2062 isn\u2019t just for one population.\u2064 It\u2019s something that helps the whole city out,\u201d Vasquez \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chicago has seen an influx of about 13,500 migrants recently. The country\u2019s third-largest city \u200dhas already spent at least $250 million on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The situation has angered \u200dChicago residents, particularly those on\u2062 the South Side, who \u200dhave complained \u200babout the city\u2019s money being spent on migrants rather than on their communities.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Chicago leaders have been begging the federal government for help with the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet me state this clearly: the city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without \u200csignificant support \u200cand\u200d immigration policy \u2063changes,\u201d Johnson\u2062 said in \u2062late August.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The federal government has \u2063already given\u200d Chicago and Illinois at least $8.5 million for the migrant \u2064crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala \u200bHarris was\u200b set to visit Chicago on Wednesday\u200b for a campaign\u2063 event, and city council members have called on her to visit the\u2064 police stations crowded with migrants while\u200c she is there.<\/p>\n<p>New York City is struggling to metabolize more than 110,000 migrants who have streamed into the\u2063 city \u2064since last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The city set up tent shelters\u2063 for migrants last year but ran into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-facing-pushback-from-city-council-members-over-migrant-tent-plan\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor faces opposition from City Council members over migrant tent proposal.\">issues including flooding<\/a> in\u200c one \u200bof those shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u2062 council members wonder how long the city can\u200d sustain so many new migrants coming in.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIs there a point that we say enough like the New York mayor did?\u201d Alderman David Moore said this week. \u201cOr is that\u2062 not \u2064an option?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is encountering resistance from city council members regarding his proposal to accommodate migrants in tents throughout the city. He requested each of the 50 council members to allocate two acres in their wards for a heated tent capable of housing 200 migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2031103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}